Axis Occupation Coinage

I have been working on a small (15-20) piece set of Axis coinage and was wondering if anyone knowledgeable about occupation coins. There are plenty out there for Germany (I've managed to get Belgian and Serb coins), but what about Italy or Japan? Currently I have pieces from Italian Albania, Manchukuo and Mengjiang but I'm looking to branch out further. Did Italy or Japan mint any coins specifically for their occupations or was it mostly contained to their puppet states minting their own coins? Thank you!


Some examples of my Axis client and puppet coins.

In the Japan section of the Numista catalog there are some coins that seem to have been minted for use in the Netherlands East Indies, occupied by Japan from 1942 until 1945:


Most WWII occupations/client states have far more banknote issues than coins, for obvious reasons.

Cita: "CassTaylor"​In the Japan section of the Numista catalog there are some coins that seem to have been minted for use in the Netherlands East Indies, occupied by Japan from 1942 until 1945:
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​Most WWII occupations/client states have far more banknote issues than coins, for obvious reasons.

​I have seen the Japanese-Indonesian coins before. It kills me that there weren't more states or regimes minting coins, like the Hellenic State, the Reichskommissariats, Azad Hind, etc.

Most of those entities existed for too brief and/or too chaotic a window of time to get to minting coins ; many issued banknotes/billets or used their 'overlord' (e.g. Germany for the Reichkommissariats, Japan for Azad Hind, etc.)'s military currency or regular currency in stead.

A nice example of an Axis puppet state that did issue it's own coins is Slovakia, which existed from March 1939 until May 1945 under Josef Tizo's puppet government. They even found the time to make commemoratives in silver!

Coins from the First Slovak Republic are beautiful, I have a 1940 Koruna myself. Germany's older allies were able to design and produce some nice sets.

Cita: "CassTaylor"​In the Japan section of the Numista catalog there are some coins that seem to have been minted for use in the Netherlands East Indies, occupied by Japan from 1942 until 1945:
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​Most WWII occupations/client states have far more banknote issues than coins, for obvious reasons.

​I must add, the above coins are very scarce e.g. during the biggest coin show in Japan there are only 1 or 2 for sale... price range $1.000 depending on quality... so not the kind of wwII cheap coins you can find around.

Thank you for that. I can't say I'm surprised.

Did you check out Myanmar? They Japanese may have minted coins.

The State of Burma doesn't appear to have minted any of its own coins, though there might have been paper currency provided by the Japanese. From what I've seen all minting of coins ceased between 1943-1945.

Burma only had paper currency under Japan no coins, the Japanese minted only a few coin years for Manchukuo and the Netherland East Indies directly in Japan. Most of the zinc coins where lost in the process of shipping them to their destination hence the scarcity of the 1 and 5 Sen, the 10 Sen you can see for as low as 120 Euros from time to time.

The Independent State of Croatia, a Axis puppet state, issued the 2 Kune coin in 1941., it's widely available at a reasonable price: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces11962.html

Italy issued coins during their occupation of Albania.

3rd Reich military issues, KM 98 & 99 were intended for use throughout occupied territories and were not strictly speaking legal tender within the borders of Germany.

Trial strike minted for Reichskommissariat Ukraine:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces84698.html

Its design was later used for the German Democratic Republic

I'm not sure about coins for certain (I'll ask my husband what he knows in a bit because I'm curious now. He's from Japan.) but I know they issued paper money in that time. Search for "sen" as well as "yen."

Japanese occupation coins are very rare and expansive. In most of the southeast asia, the coins never manage to circulate. Most of them are in musuem.
​https://steemit.com/numismatic/@hooiyewlim/ww2-malaya-japanese-occupation-pattern-coins-malaysia​​​​​​


In China manchukuo 1931 to 1942 there are afew coins which are easier to get compare to Korean yang.

https://www.ebay.com.sg/itm/CHINA-JAPANESE-PUPPET-STATE-MANCHUKUO-CHIAO-SCARCE-TYPE-COIN-LOT13-/283555506492

Korean occupation 1910 to 1945, the coins were quite very rare and scare. You can see the coin below and its not silver for the price.

https://www.ebay.com/p/Korea-1-4-Yang-1898/102144788

Another is to look at the video link(last one) below coin no9.
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I can say, the most hardest to get Korean coin is the one with the eagle at the back of the coin. Look at the video and coin no 4.

https://youtu.be/yCnLNr8olg0

Happy hunting.

Cita: "JustforFun"​

Cita: "CassTaylor"​In the Japan section of the Numista catalog there are some coins that seem to have been minted for use in the Netherlands East Indies, occupied by Japan from 1942 until 1945:
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​​
​​Most WWII occupations/client states have far more banknote issues than coins, for obvious reasons.

​​I must add, the above coins are very scarce e.g. during the biggest coin show in Japan there are only 1 or 2 for sale... price range $1.000 depending on quality... so not the kind of wwII cheap coins you can find around.

​Thanks to US submarines that make those East Indies coins so scarce.